Note-book.



GEORGE .STAVENS, 0F COEUR DALENE, IDAHO.

NOTE-BOOK.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 6, 1911. Serial No. 619,412.

T o all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, GEORGE STAvENs, citizen of the United States,residing at Coeur dAlene, in the county of Kootenai and State of Idaho,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Note-Books, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to note and other books, and has for its objectto provide at the corners of the leaves of the book beveled incisionspassing from cover to cover of the book so that the leaves may bequickly grasped one by one and turned as the writer is taking notes ormaking memoranduins.

The ordinary note book has its leaves with their edges lying in edges inplanes at right angles to the outer faces of the cover and consequentlyin taking notes it frequently happens that two or more leaves areturned.

The object of the present invention is to obviate this difliculty byhaving at the corners only of the edges of the leaves beveled incisionscut in the leaves from cover to cover and including the covers, so thatthe writer may insert the tip of the thumb under the top leaf at thesaid beveled incisions in order that Jthe leaf may be turned singly whnhis writing has covered the said top lea In the drawings illustrative ofthe preferred embodiment of the invention, Figure 1 is a perspectiveview of the note book; Fig. 2 is an end view of the same; Fig. 3 is aperspective view of the book, illustrating a manner in which the leavesmay be manipulated.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription and indicated in all the views of the accompanying drawingsby the same reference characters.

As illustrated in the drawing, the book consists of cover leaves 1 andleaves 2. Throughout the major portions of their lengths the side edgesof all of the leaves are cut square and at right angles to the planes ofthe outer faces of the cover leaves when the same are closed. However,the leaves at the corners of their side edges are provided with beveledincisions 3 which eX- tend from cover to cover, the bevel at one side ofthe book being parallel with the bevel at the other side. At the lefthand side of y the book the bevel extends under and down through theleaves. Consequently when the book is turned over or reversed this samedisposition of the bevel is preserved. Therefore while a stenographer istaking notes the thumb of the left hand may be inserted un- PatentedDeo. 12, 1911.

der the uppermost leaf when the right hand is making notes at the bottomthereof, so that the said uppermost leaf may be turned singly andcertainly, thereby avoiding the annoyance incident to turning two ormore leaves. This is facilitated by reason of the fact that the saidbevel extends from the writing surface of the uppermost leaf downthrough the lower leaves in an inclined direction, as indicated. By thissimple arrangement much of the annoyance and delay .incident to takingnotes and making memorandums is eliminated, while at the same time thegeneral contour and arrangement of the note book is preserved.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

A bound volume in which the major portions of the edges of the leavesare trimmed at a right angle with the planes of the leaves, the leavesat their corners and at their free ends being trimmed at an acute anglewith the planes of the leaves, whereby reverse overhangs are provided atthe corner portions only of the leaves, the cover having its cornersrecessed at the overhanging portions of the leaves to provide space toinsert the tip of a nger under the overhang.

ln testimony whereof, I aiiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE STAVENS. [1.. s]

Witnesses: V

F. W. LEWIS, O. E. ARNDT.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

